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Definitions
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
Word origin
From Middle English compunccion, borrowed from Old French compunction, from Late Latin compunctionem (“a pricking”), from Latin compunctus, the past participle of compungere (“to severely prick”), from com- + pungere (“to prick”).
Used in a sentence
“His age—his kindness, disarmed Pen’s anger somewhat, and made Arthur feel no little compunction for the deed which he was about to do.”
“[H]e would have had no compunction whatever in flinging him out of the highest window in Venice into the deepest water of the city.”
“But he felt, later, a little compunction. He had been violent, cruel with poor Hermione. He wanted to recompense her, to make it up.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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